This city has planted in Slocan Park, in honour of the VCBF 10th Anniversary, three 'Akebono', five 'Shiro-fugen' and six 'Snow Goose'. We could use photos for our map when they come into bloom in the spring. Here is the city's map of the location.

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This is the first of any photos from the VCBF 10th Anniversary plantings. 'Snow Goose' and 'Akebono' have finished blooming, and these 'Shiro-fugen' seem reluctant to start, though other 'Shiro-fugen' trees in this neighbourhood are equally late.
I would be feeling insulted, as these do not look like great trees to me. The 'Snow Goose' are on Birch Bark Cherry rootstock, which I think looks bizarre. 'Snow Goose' seem widely available grafted low so that the trunk matches the tree. What's wrong with a tree having a matching trunk?

The 'Shiro-fugen' are grafted high; the rootstock growth off the trunk is already appearing, and the graft area looks pretty weak - the rootstock diameter is already larger than the scion. I don't understand that dark area on the trunk in the 2nd photo.

The 'Akebono' is also high-grafted, with the mismatched size of the trunk and scion apparent already and the branching all from the same place, and the rootstock growth already underway on the trunk.

It's one thing to have trees grafted high on city streets so that they branch above the parked cars and passing trucks. But in a park, wouldn't it be nice if the trees looked like real trees?